Altman Says OpenAI Will Keep Releasing AI Math Results After Spending Hundreds of Millions
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Updated · The Verge · Oct 30
Altman Says OpenAI Will Keep Releasing AI Math Results After Spending Hundreds of Millions
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Oct 30
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Hundreds of AI-generated math results will keep coming from OpenAI, Sam Altman said, adding the company is holding more discoveries beyond the proofs it has already released.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into the effort, Altman said, including about $10 million on OpenAI’s claimed Navier-Stokes solution as it pushed models against the hardest problems.
This month alone, OpenAI released hundreds of mathematical results, but researchers say the writeups often lacked attribution, context and verification, leaving mathematicians to sort through and check them.
Three recent claimed breakthroughs in math, physics and computer science have sharpened the backlash, with details of a Yang-Mills result still withheld under a new release approach advised by selected experts.
Altman said humanity’s right to fundamental knowledge outweighs the disruption, even as the scale of OpenAI’s spending fuels concern that AI labs could price researchers out of core scientific fields.